in reply to Testing a module with eval() where $@ is clobbered (pre v5.14)

:) too many words , but does this shed any light? Or do you really need the value of $@ that gets clobbered 
my $ret;
eval { $ret = $foo->blah; 1 }
or warn "it failed but did err get clobbered? $@";

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